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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

OUTTAKES YOU WON'T SEE ON TV! This is a scene from the last episode of Season Two. We start on a tight shot of Jenny who is worrying aloud that people are still seeing her as a machine and not as a person. After her moving speech we pull back to reveal her mother is using her as an electrical outlet to make coffee. It was a very funny bit but we ended up cutting it because it was too talky and most of the same ideas were already being expressed in another scene. But you, the loyal blog fans, get to see it anyway.

Great scene, and if this is what got cut I can't wait to see what was left in. This of course does under-cut Dr. Wakeman's brief statement at the beginning of "Pest Control" that Jenny should "treat her body with more respect." Of course, convenience can easily render anyone guilty of hypocrisy if they are not paying attention.

Well, in a perfect world Season II wouldn't have been delayed and would have been heavily promoted as well. But this is far from a perfect world. Not to mention that the publicity problem was cited as only one of the reasons for the decision to wait; there may be others, equally or more compelling. In any case, it's clearly out of everyone's hands here.